Shouldering Moral Responsibility: The Division of Moral Labor among Pregnant Women, Rabbis, and Doctors
Shouldering Moral Responsibility: The Division of Moral Labor among Pregnant Women, Rabbis, and Doctors
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DOI：
10.1111/aman.13314
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发表时间：
2019-09-30
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Teman, Elly
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作者：
Ivry, Tsipy;Teman, Elly
这篇文章通过人种学的重点关注虔诚的犹太人与拉比和医学专家关于胎儿畸形产前诊断的两难问题的咨询，对道德人类学做出了贡献。我们的民族志着眼于那些就生育困境咨询拉比当局的宗教夫妇，而不是自主做出决定和拉比制定的决策程序。我们考察了拉比的主要做法，即划分道德劳动，并将其外包给不同的医学和拉比专家进行连锁反应。外包道德决定和汇集专家意见的目的是减轻被咨询者以及犹太法师顾问沉重的道德责任。在寻求专家咨询时，人们实际上可能选择从选择自由中解放出来--至少按照自主决策模式的定义--而不是仅仅屈服于权威的教条主义力量，无论是宗教还是生物医学。[道德劳动、宗教、产前诊断、生物医学、正统犹太人]
This article contributes to the anthropology of morality through an ethnographic focus on the consultations of religiously observant Jews with rabbis and medical specialists regarding dilemmas surrounding prenatal diagnosis of fetal anomalies. Our ethnography looks at religious couples who consult rabbinic authorities on their reproductive dilemmas rather than making autonomous decisions and the procedures of decision-making that rabbis enact. We examine the rabbis' emic practice of dividing moral labor and outsourcing it in a chain reaction to various medical and rabbinic experts. The purpose of outsourcing moral decisions and aggregating expert opinions is to lighten the heavy weight of moral responsibility for consultees as well as for the rabbinic consultants. In seeking expert consultations, people might actually be opting for liberation from freedom of choice-at least as defined in the model of autonomous decision-making-rather than merely submitting to an authoritative doctrinarian power, whether of religion or biomedicine. [moral labor, religion, prenatal diagnosis, biomedicine, Orthodox Jews]